GATC celebrates its 15th anniversary in October GATC Biotech SARL, the French subsidiary, with headquarters in Marseille, is founded in August. General Manager is Dr. Marjolaine Baldo. Two additional employees are acquired for the English subsidiary. More than 30 genomes were sequenced in GATC’s laboratories to date.

GATC Biotech Ltd., the English subsdiary with headquarters at the St. John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge, is founded in January. General Manager is Dr. Tony Piper

GATC expands its range of services and turns into an internationally successful provider of molecular biology services

The Gene Alliance finishes the genome project Aspergillus niger for the DSM, the Netherlands. With a size of 38Mb it is the largest industrial genome project ever done in Europe. The delivery time is just 9 months.

The „Gesellschaft für Analyse-Technik und Consulting mbH“ is transformed into „GATC Biotech AG“. GATC moves into its new premises  – it’s just a short walk to the next Biergarten.

The flood of the century hits Lake Constance. The construction of the new GATC building, located directly on the river Rhine, is delayed. GATC has 37 employees. A new office is opened in Tägerwilen, Switzerland.

Foundation of the Gene Alliance, a network of five German Biotech companies. Goal of the cooperation is to acquire extremely large genome projects too big for a single company.

Launch of the world's first eCommerce platform for sequencing services, called MaxControl, allowing customers to conveniently trace & track their orders

GATC becomes European sales partner of DNASTAR Inc., Madison, Wisconsin (USA) and starts to sell & support Lasergene ™, the leading DNA sequence analysis software, within Europe

The yeast genome project is completed. GATC generated a total of 560kb of sequence data in publication quality of >99,999% - the highest quality and volume of all 70 sequencing groups involved.

At a meeting of all groups working on the yeast genome in Manchester, Thomas Pohl promised André Goffeau, director of the project, to analyse a cosmid within 4 weeks in publication quality – he kept his promise!

Twelve Direct Blotting Electrophoresis systems “GATC 1500” are sold at the Analytica trade show in Munich, Germany. Customers were from Taiwan, Korea and Japan.

GATC starts to participate at the European genome project Saccaromyces cerevisiae using its patented Direct Blotting Electrophorese System "GATC 1500”

Foundation of the „Gesellschaft für Analyse-Technik und Consulting mbH ” as Europe's first sequencing company with a seed capital of 25.000 Deutsche Mark (approx. 12.000 Euro). DM 2.000 (approx. 1.000 Euro) were spent for laboratory equipment. Thomas Pohl himself designed GATC's first logo.